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He is being interviewed about an exciting new program called "Navigator", which is going to help MLC life insurance clients get access to high quality mental health assessment and treatment planning at the start of their mental health journey.

Benchmark is excited to be one of the first practices to be a part of this great new initiative, and Aaron has been an important advisor in the development of the new system.

I get asked this question by supervisees at least weekly, and it is a growing area of complaints against psychologists. I've written a brief overview of my take on how to apply ethical guidelines to requests for reports from third-party payers. ... See MoreSee Less

As national psychology week unfolds, most of us will have already been bombarded with plenty of feel good stories about mental health awareness and how a psychologist can help. However, the story we ...

Well this is fairly appalling. We in the mental health community have bene working hard for about 3 decades to destigmatise mental health, but our PM would like to take an action that marginalises whilst offering very little actual protection.

Quick refresher, those with mental health diagnoses are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators of violent acts.

Im no expert on terrorism, but my hunch would be that when extremist ideologies and mental illness co-occur, they are both caused by the same thing, rather than the mental illness causing the terrorism.

It is hard to capture the feelings of sadness that came from 4-corners last night. The captivity and abuse of children in the NT is as disgusting as it is predictable. If we all learned nothing from the Zimbardo experiments, it is that deprivation of liberty becomes abuse remarkably quickly.

This was demonstrated in the bowels of Stanford University 50 years ago, it was demonstrated in Guantanamo bay and a range of other rendition bases 10 years ago, and it is currently being demonstrated in Nauru and Manus island.

Removal of freedom is the second most serious sanction any society can impose on an individual, and is certainly the most serious sanction imposed by any society that any of us want to be a part of. However, there must be strict rules, strict procedures, and strict oversight or these things will happen over and over again. ... See MoreSee Less